Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on the U.S. Senate’s 61 to 38 vote this morning to end the filibuster on the Jobs Bill

We not only want you, we need you! We are looking for more work site stewards. We are the union and we need your support to organize and protect our rights.

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Minnesota could lose $591 million and more than 9,000 jobs unless the U.S. Senate preserves FMAP funding that state, county and local governments desperately need. Nationwide, $26 billion and 900,000 public and private sector jobs are at risk. 

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Delegates to the 39th International Convention of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, (AFSCME), today elected Lee Saunders to be the next Secretary-Treasurer of the union representing 1.6 million public service workers.

AFSCME activists rallied Wednesday on Boston Common, in solidarity with Council 93, to prevent the loss of critical public services and to pass the jobs bill now stalled in Congress.